Bass player with The Milkman’s Union by day, solo artist by night – Jeff Beam of Portland, Maine, is a busy man. Having released a plethora of solo material over the past few years (check out his Bandcamp page for evidence of just how prolific he is), 2012 brings another new album. Be Your Own…
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Notorious 60s garage-psych revival band, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, are hitting our shores again for the first time since early 2010, promoting their latest album Aufheben. To celebrate and educate we have compiled a listed of BJM’s, top ten tracks (as we see it) that everyone should know before heading to a gig near you….
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Music, particularly good music, can mean many different things to different people. Too often it’s relegated to the role of simply background noise or something to groove to, and while there is certainly a place for this kind of enjoyment, so much is overlooked when we don’t take the time to scratch below easy lyrics…
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It is often that we get albums that sing of love. This is one of those albums. Yet don’t let its title, Put Your Back N 2 It, fool you into thinking it is the latest by Ice Cube. Think more along the lines of Bon Iver or Sufjan Stevens (or even, on the track…
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What’s a girl (or several) to do when there are so many wonderful front women in the world? Why, get them together for a night of solo performances, of course! Lip had a chat to Jennifer Kingwell of The Jane Austen Argument about Ladies Singles (an event comprising an impressive line-up of five solo women…
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Love Connection‘s sophomore album, Euphoria begins with ‘Piezoelectric’, a calming instrumental reminiscent of Jamaican steel drums. I was immediately transported to another place and time. It made me think of a tropical island holiday. ‘Forest’ has a similar vibe but with a more naturalistic sound of nature. It is really a quite unique sound, with…
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The mention of British indie rockers, Reef, tends to elicit responses like, “Is that the ‘Place Your Hands’ band?” and a brief rendition of Gary Stringer’s distinct vocals; they have a solid decade-long career under their belt in addition to a couple of seminal songs, and reformed in 2010 to again tour together and share…
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Running up the stairs, I grab my stamp and I stumble into a room populated by about thirty or so folks soaking in sounds of I’lls’. This four-piece band supported Chet Faker for all three of his Melbourne shows and will be playing at Castle Music Festival at the end of June. Simon Lam’s hazy…
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It was quite the weekend for Adelaide music fans, with a international record day sale, Lou Barlow playing Fowlers and many other bands playing in the city; it was the kind of weekend where you would struggle to stereotype Adelaide as a sleepy little town. At the normally quiet little Metropolitan Hotel, punters were treated…
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First and foremost, please let me apologize to the Lip readers – I have not been active on the website in just about three weeks. In a mere six days, it would’ve been a month without posting. I am fine, everything is fine, I just haven’t had nearly the amount of free time at night…
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Alongside being a member of Belles Will Ring, Aidan Roberts has managed to record three solo albums under as ‘The Maple Trail‘. The third and most recent, Cable Mount Warning, was created across a number of locations, including New Zealand, the Blue Mountains, and Roberts’ home in Sydney, and the result is a sound that…
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The Jezabels have a lot to be proud of; this four-piece indie pop band from Sydney won Triple J’s Unearthed competition in 2009 and subsequently pumped out three EPs to critical acclaim. Last year cemented that they’re here to stay: they had their single ‘Endless’ Summer place #9 in Triple J’s Hottest 100 and nominated…
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The next time you hear that old wearied refrain, ‘They don’t make music like they used to!’, simply hand the utterer a copy of Boys & Girls by Alabama Shakes and bask in the guilty pleasure that is proving someone wrong. With elements of soul, country, blues, and roots, the debut album by this group…
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Making a career in the music industry is no easy feat. Doing it when you’re in an all-girl rock quartet and half of your members are still in high school however, is a different ballgame altogether. Over the span of their short career, Stonefield have compiled quite an impressive resume; they won Triple J Unearthed…
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